half. al-jazeera. hello and welcome to the news hour life from the headquarters in doha i'm fully back t. ball coming up in the next sixty minutes. anti-government protesters try to march on the sudanese president's promise but are brock's by riot police firing tear gas. turkey says the united states has agreed to disarm kurdish

fighters in northern syria also this sob pouring rain adds to the misery of indonesia's tsunami survivors who have lost everything thus. i can show you where the government's going to reopen digging his heels and donald trump vows no end to the shutdown until he gets five billion dollars for his border wall and a bone piece of swimming pool sport has india go in search of a first ever cricket series win in australia it's one one going into the boxing day match in melbourne. thank you for joining as riot police have used tear gas to disperse the latest on thai government protests in sudan's capital khartoum. crowds wanted to march towards the presidential palace demanding an end to the twenty nine year old of omar al bashir they are unimpressed by the president's promise to step

up reforms that he says will make people feel better the government says twelve people have died since the unrest began over rising food and fuel prices but amnesty international bodies a number of deaths could be as high as thirty seven algeria's heba morgan ventured into the thick of the protests area here's what she saw in car too. people in sudan have been persistent for three days now and you can see behind me you can see a huge amount of huge number of people protesting this saying that it's a peaceful course cuz they want the government to go they've been chanting things like down with the government because the seventh day of protests against the government people are not clear come clear that it is going to end obviously with a lot of confusion is a lot of pretty constant police have been firing tear gas where we are watching that they've also fired a lot of the fire a lot of tear gas they've been firing they've been threatening protests of everything they are still protesting and it's turning out to be a huge crowd maybe probably much larger than the crowd was expecting it's not clear if the government is actually going to bow down to their demands and go away and

five step like they want to it's been a very very shaky things that people have been protesting nobody knows where it's going to end and have a morgan is now back inside a khartoum bureau joins us live on the news hour as you said the seven days of protests now how much more momentum is sad how long could these protests go on. well it's not clear fully how long will it go it will go on for what people are saying is that they want the president to leave so might go on and tell he actually fulfilled their demand or it might go on until he comes up with a better solution to try to appease them and whoever is backing them up now let's remember it started off as process between itself from basically people who were complaining about the rising prices of bread and food commodities but it quickly changed into people saying that they want the president to go there not backed by a certain political power some opposition of voice support for the group there saying that they are willing to listen to those who are just as a bag of protesters if the need arises and they agree with the protesters so they need to have

a new government in place of the old one but for now it seems that as the protesters are marching along what we have seen earlier is people protesting in the streets and people in the sides who have been standing not even part of the procession each can see them just joining in especially when the police reacted using tear gas and live in relations you could see that it could aggravated more people and people continue to process makes thousands of people basically saying that they want an end to the government so it might not end until that happens. his first the since the crisis has promised real reforms do we know what he's specifically promising and how this will receive be received by the protesters. well he hasn't specified what kind of reforms he's going to offer all he said is that he is going to look into the issue he will try to fix the situation and he will try to make it better for the people who are protesting and millions of other sudanese who are living in poverty world bank says that half the population have of the fourteen million population living below the poverty line now what he has also it is not clear but obviously people who continue to protest think that this is not

enough they they feel like they've been there done that it's all the same to them throughout the twenty eight to nine years of his rule they think that what he's promising is not going to make a change so obviously what he's promised so far although it doesn't have any concrete change is not enough for them thank you for that he morgan reporting there live from khartoum now really i spoke to hassani professor from his school science at the university of khartoum and i started by asking him if he thinks the president omar bashir is repairing for more compromise. i seem to. because now would be mounting on the government and also the government is trying also to mobilize. big is. the. process of mobilizing said uncountable but i dissent from from both sides. that is the only way. this is a compromise

a political compromise to save the country from. i think in the course of this and the us into them. i don't expect the government to bust the rug from this process. but this and. this is my convening and humped room. because in other cities now. that they're being done with it in our. days ago though what i express. my. deepest is to me one tonight maybe tomorrow. this week. for the coming days i think now the world news turkey's foreign minister says the u.s.

is going to take back military equipment supplied to kurdish and forces in northern iraq the u.s. has been supporting kurdish fighters in the area since twenty fourteen as part of the fight against size so the u.s. bonds kurdish that forces currently control the area syria and. way an area of syria but in recent days donald trump said he's pulling all u.s. troops from syria turkey categorizes the kurdish fighters as terrorists and has been threatening an offensive against kurdish held territory near the city of miami beach for weeks now simplicio grew has the latest from istanbul turkish officials how welcomed the u.s. decision to withdraw from syria they also welcomed a commitment to with take weapons provided to y.p. to fighters in order to fight against arsenal and syria how it will when you speak to the military experts and security experts they have doubts about the way how these weapons are going to be collected because they say there's a huge amount of weapons provided to the white p.g.

and no one can assure that these weapons have been haven't been taken out of syria to iraq or other places or no one can guarantee that these weapons can be delivered by the white p.g. to russian military forces over there or the syrian regime army forces inside syria of course it is a question mark also for turkey whether united states is totally going to isolate the y.p. g. and syria in that case a scenario comes up for the turkish officials to consider whether the y p g is going to align with the syrian regime or a russia we know that two kurdish delegations from the syrian democratic a council which is the political wing of the s.d.f. have been to moscow and they have been discussed they discussed about the future of that is the new free tease where turkey and threatens to hold a military operation in order to clean the region from the wipe e.g. now talking to the source as an anchor they are very uncomfortable about these latest dialogue between moscow and the s.d.f.

. in the united sates present donald trump as the care that parts of the government will stay shut down until he gets five million dollars for his war on the border with mexico he spoke at the white house after wishing american troops a merry christmas comes demand for a physical barrier on the border has been rejected by a democratic party rivals in some members of his own republican party and italian is refusing to sign a wider spending bill temporarily stripping funding from its ways of the government's i can't tell you where the government is going to be open i can tell you it's not going to be open until we have a wall fence whatever they like to call it i'll call it whatever they want. but it's all the same thing it's a barrier from people pouring into our company into our country live to see our towns in washington d.c. she have is a president digging in here. well i think at the outset we have to make clear that as is often the case with these off the cuff remarks there are lots of ways to

interpret what the president's saying and in fact in the end all of them have any bearing whatsoever on any future policy decisions but yes at the outset there is that very statement that i'm not going on not going to sign any federal funding for the for the twenty five percent of the government that isn't being funded right now until i get until i get the wall but then he adds but he adds well the wall or the fence or whatever they like to call it so that suggests well wait a second if it's just about a fence or whatever they'd like to call it then is there a sense along from feels that if he if he if he if he relents on the terminology that maybe there's a way to a deal some democrats say there is no chance of ever getting any of these this kind of barrier but actually historically the democrats have appropriated billions of dollars for fencing along along the border he was also interesting because he said that he his vision is of a five hundred to five hundred fifty mile. area to be built by the by the by the next elections which is quite interesting that's actually considerably less than we've had in the past and he is not talking about steel slabs artistic steel slabs

he's not talking about a concrete barrier and he was a perhaps he thinks there is some negotiating to be done on this as a result actually the last offer we heard from the white house to democrats over the weekend which was something considerably less than five billion dollars long as it was above one point three billion dollars it didn't have to be a concrete wall so that was the last offer we'd heard from the white house but it's not apparent that any negotiating is going on whatsoever at the moment and in fact because of all these conflicting messages we we are getting a sense from the democratic leadership that they don't really understand what's going on either this is a tweet from chuck schumer on christmas eve he's the senate minority leader of the democrats different people from the same white house saying different things about what the president would accept or not accept to end his trunk shutdown making it impossible to know where they stand at any given moment the senate does reconvene there on thursday yes and what the president had to say she had about the market turmoil. well that was interesting too because it's precisely what the president

has been saying that is what is treasury secretary's been saying that as being blamed for the market selloff on christmas eve the worst day of trading on wall street ever he was rather conciliatory it seemed first whether he didn't really affirm his confidence in stephen neutral has been widely being blamed for the sell off on christmas eve because of his statement on sunday that he was having he was having phone calls with the heads of the biggest banks in the u.s. to make sure there wasn't a liquidity crunch the markets would wait we didn't even think there was that was even an issue so that didn't help donald trump affirming his confidence in steve but also being quite conciliatory about the federal reserve as well he said he had confidence he said that yes they are raising interest rates too quickly and that's what he blames for the stock market selloff but he says he thinks they'll get it eventually the that is the wrong policy so quite conciliatory given the rumors that he wanted to follow a drone paul the fed chief which is also a concern was going to the stock markets off on monday we'll have to see without an

effect when that when the markets reopen thank you for that she have a tansey live in washington and more now on the market turmoil agent songs that followed wall street's plunging heavily as investors worry about president criticism of the u.s. several reserve the government shutdown in washington and trade tensions with china also weighing markets down but as gable end is on the reports from new york refusing to accept any of the blame for the closing bell couldn't ring fast enough on monday market sell off continued with the dow losing more than six hundred points and nearly three percent the worst christmas eve drop ever by far it continues to decline that's been going on for more than a month. until monday the worst drop on the day before christmas was one thousand nine hundred eighty five when it dropped half a percentage point markets hate uncertainty but now when wall street looks to washington they're getting that plus unpredictability here is what has the markets

worried the partial government shutdown that some are predicting could last into two thousand one thousand threats of increased terrorist back and forth between china and the u.s. trump has been looking to put the blame on the falling markets on the federal reserve and its chairman jerome powell who trump has threatened to replace even though he himself up pointed him and doesn't have the authority to fire him to unilaterally look at threats leaving wall street on edge i'm a little worried quite honestly i am behind a year because of the valuation i think we're getting pretty t.v. although i feel no bottom in the market and i do think that the fed has made them contentious and serious. blunders and i feel like mr powell is going to get fired amidst the downturn monday trump showed no signs of backing down tweeting in part the only problem our economy has is the fed they don't have

a feel for the market they don't understand unnecessary trade wars or strong dollars or even democrat shutdowns over borders just recently powell tried to put a good face on the market volatility this is the best year since the financial crisis you have growth well above trend monday's sell off was also a fallout from treasury secretary steve minutiae as phone calls over the weekend to executives of america's top banks which was meant to assure them that the federal government was on solid footing but the unusual call only spooked the markets even more leaving many to wonder if there was something fundamentally wrong with the economy they weren't sharing the only good news on wall street perhaps. this is that the market slide will stop at least on tuesday because that's when the stock exchange is closed for the christmas holiday but when it reopens again on wednesday all bets are off likely more worries of what's to come next gabriel is on the

al-jazeera new york. plenty more ahead for you on this news hour including voters in the democratic republic of congo get ready for an election that's been delayed for years past find out why iraq's christians have reason to celebrate this holiday season and two of the biggest stars in basketball is set to collide on christmas day peter have the details and books. but first to indonesia where to rancho rain and false alarms about more massive waves have been bringing further anxiety and misery to areas devastated by saturday's tsunami at least four hundred twenty nine people are now known to have died after the disaster struck at night and without warning set off by a nearby volcano that's erupting and thomas reports from pounding ground one of the worst hits places. the scenes in pondok line all familiar indonesians have seen lots of face this year the drudgery of a cleanup following

a disaster this is what remains of the hotel workers me at the end all day and we're greeting guests when the tsunami hits on saturday both were swept inland by the water and were injured as they were tumbled it was terrifying but not completely unexpected us this island i saw what happened and i knew i just knew it would happen here i just didn't know when. a lou is the city on indonesia's fourth largest audience struck by another tsunami and earthquake in september more than two thousand people don't like that and two major earthquakes killed more than five hundred people in the eastern oil and of lombok a few months ago so as well just an vulcanologists say the amounts of tectonic activity in indonesia in twenty eight team hasn't been particularly unusual what is unusual is that the areas destroyed what heavily populated increasing the number.

victims that's meant a very busy year for emergency services and aid organizations that helps of only has three decisively december and beyond our planning so that's why we as the red cross requested them over there is in to assist us and they also collect money over and and under now some of the fight this and also on their notes in the north hundred land is now in the first stage of a disaster recovery process that is more advanced in other polls of internees it's almost as if this rain which is we make constant through the tsunami hit if mocking the people up on the ground i think try to clear up and dry out their lives but it will clear and likely it will improve that little company right now but the narrative in indonesia is a familiar one under thomas alva zero one hundred one. hijacked bus has crashed into pedestrians in china killing at least five people video showed the attacker

being wrestled to the ground in a rest said in the eastern city of looting young police say he took control of the boss armed with a knife more than twenty people were injured in the ordeal is not yet clear why he did it. north korea has been ordered to pay five hundred one million dollars for the torture and death of an american student or to one beer died in the u.s. last year just days after being released from prison in north korea had been in custody since two thousand and sixteen after being sentenced to hard labor for stealing a post a us court ruled north korea's government is liable for wannabe is death and should pay damages to his family but there's no word on how that would happen in libya gunmen and a suicide bomber have attached the foreign ministry building in tripoli five people were killed including the attackers i'm adopted one hundred has more from tripoli. the interior minister calls it a terrorist attack he also stated that the criminal investigation department is

currently conducting forensic and d.n.a. analysis to recognize the identity of the attackers and the motives behind the attack this is the third time state institutions get under attack in this year but yet interior minister admits that there is chaos in the security system look at libya we have been consumed by our own internal fighting and rivalry so that's why we couldn't have official security forces that are well equipped and trained to prevent such attacks but we have many challenges but we will never give up and the same context the foreign minister says that the ministers his headquarter has been damaged by the attack and the employee is well starved over work in another facility he also appeals for the international community for help and how the research the only this is

a message to the international community we have demanded that the arms embargo on libya be lifted security cannot be maintained in libya unless your security council gives an exception by party lifting the arms embargo on certain quality of weapons so we can combat terrorism to similar attacks targeted a state institutions in the capital tripoli this year the high national election commissions headquartered in may and the state oil firm national oil corporations headquarter in september but yet the security apparatus does not seem to have been improved to prevent such attacks confusion and anger are growing in the democratic republic of congo five days out from long delayed elections the opposition insists the vote is open to rigging and they're particularly concerned about largely untested machines at polling stations catherine so i reports from kinshasa. there's a lot of uncertainty here many rumors flying around speculation about what might

happen in the coming days many people we've spoken to telling us that they're afraid that the electoral commission could postpone the election again some eight presidential candidates held a press conference and say they will not accept another delay and all this is being made even more difficult by the fact that the electoral commission is not giving regular updates on what exactly is going on in the fact that people here really don't trust that organization at all. electoral commission technicians in kinshasa a dealing with a crisis they have to make sure thousands of electronic voting machines are called from other regions and four million new ballot papers will walk on voting day material to replace those that are said to have been destroyed bad fire in a warehouse crippling dipali in the city and leading to a postponement of the election. of four million voters here that we needed some

space so we ordered for five million people we know organizing them disobey district and working hard to make sure. the. semi official say out of all two materials already in regional headquarters across the country so this analyst believes getting them to polling stations during the rainy season in a country with bad infrastructure poor security in parts as well as an outbreak in the east will not be. able to give. on the. credibility of the process is very very low robot trains. that are to be deployed to the province's he's already visited many parts of the country as a process to this point has been a sham. it is the.

same has been unable to publish them up a war the polling stations. to do so you might. just a machine meant for those used to manipulate the outcome these are difficult and uncertain times indeed people here in the cop who told you not to trust the commission they say they're afraid the election could be postponed again and even if it goes ahead on sunday they're not confident it will be credible we don't trust the process but we must go vote one week is nothing but on election day we will take responsibility we either have a good election they resign or we force them to leave. the only thing we expect. president kabila so we find another solution and i think the electoral commission is just a puppet of the president and he is the real problem the commission is under pressure to be a reasonably credible election on sunday with just a few days to go many congolese and not so sure. we've also seen

a very strongly worded christmas message from the catholic bishop in kinshasa the catholic church is an important and influential player in. our politics and he's basically said that people here are living in exile in their own country he said that they're being held hostage they are walking in darkness but he's also told his congregation to keep the faith now a lot of people we've been talking to us saying it's very difficult to keep the faith under this a constance's with everything that is going on the electoral commission under immense pressure to make sure that they deliver an election that is. a fairly credible so it's really going to be very interesting to see how things play play out in the coming days. one of iran's top clerics. he has died at the age of seventy was deputy head of the government body that choose

a successor to supreme leader ayatollah ali how many. head of the iran's judiciary joining a crackdown on dissidents journalists and activists in the late ninety's and early two thousand the end of his tenure coincided with mass protests over allegations of rigging in the two thousand and nine presidential election coming up in the second half of this news hour escaping venezuela to search for food in colombia but an increasing number of indigenous people are struggling to find their next meal also why thousands of asylum seekers in greece have been left out again in the cold and in sport the man in charge of the english premier league pay set is insists the title race is still open. at. the end. hello you know welcome back to international weather forecasts we're here across

the west and we are watching one particular storm system make its way across turkey and with this storm we do expect to see some snow in the higher elevations as well as some very heavy rain and showers down here towards the south this is where that cold front is laying out it's going to extend all the way down to the north eastern part of africa so over the next few days things are going to be quite messy from wednesday as well as a thursday and temperatures are expected to fall as we go towards the end of the week so aleppo it's going to be a rainy day if you attend degrees over here towards beirut at sixteen and even towards jerusalem only nine degrees is going to be a high temperature well here across the arabian peninsula watching some clouds in those clouds going to be making their way down here toward the south there's that line of clouds right there across the northern part of saudi arabia and as we go from wednesday to thursday we actually see that cloud area actually expand don't expect to see too much in terms of rain in that area maybe a drizzle or two but nothing in terms of flooding for doha the clouds going to be on the increase from thursday to friday as well attempt a few of about twenty three degrees and then very quickly as we go down towards the

southern part of africa we are seeing some showers down here across the coast and for cape town is going to be a partly cloudy day for you with a temperature of about twenty two degrees in your forecast. a colleague must much the same is now being held in pretrial detention for two years what is his crime. why hasn't he been tried yet why hasn't justice been applied in this case is he detained because he said charnel us as journalism become a crime have moles become a tool to silence weiss's of truth we will continue our news coverage with professionalism and impartiality our work will remain credible and accurate but journalism is not a crime incarcerating journalists is not acceptable we demand the immediate release of our colleague mahmoud to same and all journalists detained in

a gyptian jails free mahmoud's and all his colleagues we stand for press freedom. welcome back you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me for the bad she bore a reminder our top stories riot police in saddam have drawn fro tess's from reaching the presidential palace in khartoum they're still demanding all mob a share who's been in power for twenty nine years resign despite his promises to

improve people's lives to wrench a wane in indonesia is hampering the search for survivors of saturday's tsunami the number of dead in western java has time to four hundred twenty nine experts fear more tsunamis are possible if the are not kut-o. a volcano erupts again. and turkey's foreign minister says the us has agreed on a plan to disarm kurdish fighters in syria and for kurdish groups to leave the city of miami beach the us a previously supported the kurdish y p g in their fight against. decided to withdraw u.s. troops from syria mess in a week ago. and for more on that side let's hear from some time barack out who is the director of the center of a coffin humanitarian studies at the doha institute for graduate studies he says kurdish fighters in syria have been left to their own devices after the u.s. withdrawal. well the only option facing them today is really to go back to the government of syria and you have to remember that at the beginning of the war they were kind of allied with the government so there they've never really sever their

relationship with the state so maybe the best option would be to go back to to to us understand is some kind of relationship they would probably require the russians to to mediate a little bit but to. continue with their aspiration of total control of the areas particularly north of syria bordering turkey is very unrealistic i think they need also to revisit their own ambitions the probably have to draw their forces back to where the kurdish territories originally are because the country like turkey takes against them the fact that they have more or less ethnically cleanse many arab settlements in the north and i think that gives them a degree of legitimacy now new museum has opened in senegal tracing millions of years of african history it's also provoking calls for the return of african artifacts stolen by slave traders nicholas haq has a story from santa gas capital to car. it is under this tree that the story begins three million years ago in africa with the beginning of the

human species it's a tale of a long journey from which most never returned part of the slave trade there was sorrow and destruction along the way but also color courage the spiritual and humor leaving those that want to learn more in our religion it's so overwhelming i don't really understand it some of it some milieu some of it's not but it definitely grabs you by the gut. the museum of black civilization has been fifty two years in the making it's the brainchild of single or cynical first president nicknamed the poet president because he spent a third of the national budget on arts and culture it's a legacy president microcell is carrying on. keeping our culture is what saved african people from attempts made up making them soulless people without a history and if culture does link people together it also stimulates progress.

work on the museum only began in two thousand and fifteen after a thirty four million dollars donation from china the exterior was inspired by the medieval city of great zimbabwe now a world heritage site while the inside is modeled on a senegalese hut fourteen thousand square meters in size with this museum the call from african countries to get their artifacts back in no longer be ignored because this space is a celebration of bracket artistic expression and so whether storing or not much of it comes from outside the continent. the museum's director shows us the eighteenth century sward of. it was stolen from senegal and is in possession of the french who have now lent it to the museum. but people when they stole our belongings they weren't art they were just objects of daily life but then

colonizers to find these objects african art the aim of this museum is to show that african art is in fact much bigger than that our focus is not just on the past but also on the future and the voice of the diaspora. a large part of the museum is dedicated to contemporary art with many pieces from the caribbean the diversity of the collection that's been assembled so far is unique for many africans who come to visit it is a much more than a museum it's a mirror to see themselves in a new light because hawk al-jazeera the car the lack of food and other essentials in venezuela has forced hundreds of thousands and look for their next meal in neighboring colombia they include a growing number of indigenous people of the tribe complain of the less and warm welcome they receive. from the border city of. standard bellies in this in the gaze of children are telltale medical signs of hunger

they're all members of the indigenous euclid tribe who left minnesota in search of food they now call home a makeshift camp just over the border in colombia. there was a huge crisis in venezuela no medicine no food for our children we had no options but to leave the chief the uneasier left his land in the mountainous. area have been hoping to find relief instead he says his tribe must face the rest mountain discrimination but. in recent months some of the you have clashed with police attempting to block their entry was. we now resort to illegally crossing the river dividing the two countries. the lens of the u.k. are divided by the border and their legal status has never been formalized traditionally they've been free to move across at will but that's more difficult to

go back in two thousand. court ordered states to protect then threatened by internal conflict but the ones who have the rived here fleeing the crisis often don't have the documents to prove their ethnic identity. some of those who have made it across the recycling cans to help feed their families others live on the streets of the border city of begging or braving baskets in hats. they don't have the jesuit refugee service says of the millions who have left venezuela it's the indigenous people who are worst off. we are in a crisis and we need the government to provide timely responses three yuko kids died from malnutrition there are special needs these communities have that must be recognised to provide protection whether they are colombians or not. on the outskirts of members of another tribe or working to extend their shack twenty one

new arrivals are sleeping in this small room. and i want to stay here i don't want to go back to venezuela and the same is true for my children and the rest of the tribe but we can all live here we need land housing health services the crisis in minutes well as many layers and well colombia has worked hard to help the fleeing menace where the indigenous communities feel their plight has so far been neglected . just. five people have died in a helicopter crash in mexico erica. was one of the victims she became the first female governor of the central state of falling elections earlier this month it's not clear what caused the crash shortly after takeoff. celebrations prayers wishes for a more peaceful year than the one we've just had it's christmas day christians believe

jesus was born in the vatican pope francis greeted thousands of roman catholic worshipers and called on people to embrace their differences as a source of richness rather than fear and in the afghan capital kabul u.s. and nato troops mark their seventeenth christmas in the country with praise and song . meanwhile in iraq christian celebrated at the ma yousif church in baghdad the defeat of i saw means many of them can now safely return to their homes in and around the northern city of mosul but many places a still in knowing iran khan reports some back that. this is a much more hopeful christmas than iraqi christians have seen in a very long time. use of church this and joseph church in central baghdad people in riding across christmas day to attend mass and there is a very hopeful atmosphere that things have changed for iraq's christians that there

are much more secure than they ever have been no just give you some facts and figures the last census that was undertaken was in one nine hundred eighty seven and there were about one point five million christians living in the country and officially in two thousand and eighteen the nearest figure that we can get is there are about two hundred fifty thousand christians left they fled the us led invasion and occupation of iraq in two thousand and three and then when their homes were destroyed by eisel in mosul and on the outskirts of baghdad in two thousand and thirteen two thousand and fourteen now the iraqi government wants those christians to come back indeed what they've done is they've made christmas day and national holiday across iraq for all iraqis to take place new only have to go to a lot of the hotels here the public spaces and they'll be christmas trees and of the decorations like the ones you see behind me up in the hotel so there's a real sense that christians are much safer than they ever have been and the iraqi

government would like them to come back to a safe and secure iraq. in the united states and my various spending christmas and side of washington to avoid being deported in jordan has a story. rosa gutierrez lopez moved to the u.s. thirteen years ago to save her life. i came here from a salvador because the country was growing so violent and there were people threatening me especially one person who had threatened me several times. but because lopez missed an early hearing in immigration court the u.s. government said she must return to el salvador her flight was meant to be on december tenth but lopez hired a lawyer and someone suggested she seek refuge at a church as it happens the members of cedar lane unitarian universalist church near washington d.c.

had decided in may two thousand and seventeen that they would provide refuge to immigrants a need they knew u.s. immigration officials normally avoid entering houses of worship to detain people facing deportation orders while some say the sanctuary movement violates u.s. immigration law the senior minister says cedar lane is both following the law and living its values our act of fate is to be in solidarity with rosa. that is our primary focus and goal and and supporting her and giving her the space and the time that she needs in order for her to receive due process in the trump era religious activists in the u.s. have stepped up efforts to protect asylum seekers and lopez has been willing to publicize her case but she really wants to be back home in virginia with her three children

in the meantime home is with the congregants of cedar lane. but i will always think them because they gave me a very warm welcome and they've embraced me as a member of their family and they've promised to protect me all of them all of them will. put the best possible gift at this christmas time roslyn jordan al-jazeera maryland and he is just now from the associated press news agency which is reporting the death of an eighty year old boy who was in the custody of immigration authorities u.s. immigration authorities and this follows the death of a seven year old girl on december thirteenth from dehydration after she and her father rest set on a remote stretch of the us mexico border will bring him on this as and when we have more information about thousands of asylum seekers are injuring another christmas

and winter and living in tents on one of greece's a j. and c. islands and as john psaropoulos reports from some also continue waiting in the cold until the government builds them a paste in it which on the morning. when abdullah and his family from afghanistan arrived on some us a few weeks ago they were given blankets and sleeping bags but nowhere to live because there's no space and the government run camp together with a friend they made this tent for their wives and children but there isn't enough room for them all make an embittered by sleep outside the tent only my children and my wife have the tent one night i sleep on the ground one night on a chair one night i asked my friends if i may sleep with them one night i sleep outside the camp in a town one night i sleep in a mosque. the former interpreter for u.s. forces in afghanistan says all the children are sick this blue tarp all in isn't waterproof so on days like this the rain drops through in

a high wind many tents are pulled apart and heavy rains can cause them to slide off their base of wooden pallets into the mud almost three thousand asylum seekers live in similar conditions in an olive grove beside the camp those who have the money by tents to put under the tarp all in the lucky ones have camping stove but an open flame is a fire hazard some light wood fires and burned plastic food containers and egyptian asylum seeker trying to stay warm died of carbon monoxide poisoning last year on lesbos his family is suing the greek government for failing to provide housing government handouts can be difficult to get many spend hours queuing for food. to go early in the morning to wait for breakfast food service begins at eight and i can get food at nine i give the food to my family and then rejoin the key for lunch i wait there for three hours and then i wait another four or five hours for dinner starting at four o'clock i spend all my day in the keys for food for my wife and

eight children in this camp was built for six hundred fifty and already houses twice that many a few new arrivals still build their own accommodation on vacant spots inside the camp these men say they found the timber in town to get us. the truth is the situation is not the best given that asylum procedures take this long the good news is that the government is looking for a new space where we hope conditions will be better this camp used to be an artillery range it was hastily chosen and built in twenty sixteen to all of the e.u. turkey agreement the army was the only institution that could get the job done in short order until now has fiercely resisted the official camps expansion. the government now seems to have overcome that obstacle and plans a new camp next year that will be twice as large as this these asylum seekers have a whole winter to survive first jumpstart opal us some most. high end

carved wooden manglers in statues made in bethlehem are sought after the world over but this centuries old trade is under threat because a christian population is dwindling in the israeli occupied holy land from bethlehem natasha go name reports. enter the christmas house workshop and the smell transports you to the all of tree groves rooted in the holy land for millennia jacques chirac amman is a fourth generation woodcarver his creations range from this nativities seen on route to a church in france to tiny statues of jesus and mary displayed in people's homes across the globe you know really a dollar free of the holy land in holy we are talking about a tree that grows in the holy land walk and the three grown up for twenty two hundred years three hundred years the demand for all of wood carver crafts is high but business owners say it's become more difficult to find workers that's partially

due to the decline in the christian population in the holy land experts say one hundred years ago christians comprise seventeen percent of the palestinian population today it's less than two percent this is importance to have a christian community living stalls i wove we call them you know people living the holiday says father jamal hodder says the struggle of living under israeli occupation continues to push christians to emigrate we see our mission here as a service of the whole community and that the same time preparing the way for a better future a future based on justice peace and reconciliation the ongoing exodus of christians from the holy land means jacobin is hiring muslim craftsman including anon for. we in the city of bethlehem live together. we don't differentiate between religions

this profession brings us together when jimmy. predicts difficult times ahead for the wood carvers he says the supply of all of wood is dwindling due to the demolition of palestinian groves the restrictions as. released place on land and the fact younger people are abandoning farming are we have to go to the next generation how and when and how and where they will get the wood maybe they have to import from being from other countries one of his daughters has expressed an interest in becoming the fifth generation of the family to carry on the trade but it'll be more than a decade before she's old enough and it's difficult to predict whether by then the political situation will prompt her to leave her homeland or how this ancient tradition might have changed natasha going to aim is era bethleham. ice forces next and the raiders check out of oakland on

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get other people to me to start social al-jazeera examines the politics of population control. attempts was his peter thank you very much shame be a fan's set for a real gift on christmas day two of the game's biggest stars lebron james and steph curry face off later as the l.a. lakers take on the champion's golden state's the n.b.a. usually saves a marquee match for christmas day and this will be the first competitive game between the sides since the brawn moved its latest chap. brawn struggle against kerry and golden state while playing for the cleveland cavaliers the braun came up

short against them in three of the last four n.b.a. championship finals and he still trails carried the season but warriors all second in the waist two places above the lake is. there a team that's not. trying to figure out how to combine a chance to ship and that's their goal every night that's also my goal but we have things we need to do between the days you know to get to know point we know now discussing china should we want to have tension happens right. now specific pressure on special days chris. had to put a game about as well you know christmas. my thirteenth. house i want to be home family but i do anything else playing basketball in the school. we saw no reason out of the difference in. probably. national organizers what they're trying to do you know we see a lot of the last four years. if i have this fear i don't have and his team on

christmas a less well. four years good his years are. going to have this year fun game well so give the n.b.a. it's a for the sports news service school warns against playing up the le bron james steph curry rivalry going to the relative strength of the warriors and lakers right now he does say though that basketball fans should enjoy these great players while they can. probably the best all around player of all time is the bron james steph curry special and he does a lot of special things he's changed the way the n.b.a. is you today in the way that teams are playing today him shooting three from thirty five feet and you know the pace of the n.b.a. is a lot faster because of a guy like steph when it comes to all around play le bron james one of the best passers in the n.b.a. one of the best rebounders in the n.b.a. and he could still score at will even though he's thirty three thirty four and we.

it's hard to ever question that he's not the best all around player in the n.b.a. or of all time even anytime le bron's on the floor it's a threat. lorenzo ball's been playing pretty well defensively colleague who is was stepping up but the end of the day they just don't have the firepower to beat it seem like golden state who has five all stars five superstars on the roster and we haven't even seen one of them play yet this season so when you have one superstar on your roster in today's n.b.a. it's kind of hard to become a threat so until le bron james gets that anthony davis or gets somebody saw me to help him out next season maybe even at the trade deadline i can't see him being much of a threat when it comes to the playoffs the n.f.l. team the raiders old leaving the long time home in oakland california the city's fans all despondent and the city's leaders are angry as rob reynolds reports outland isn't taking the raiders' departure lying down. the oakland raiders have

played their last game in this fabled coliseum home to many a sweet victory and bitter defeat there's a lot of memories in this building there been a lot of great players a lot of great cultures and a lot of a really memorable football games played in this building the raiders are much like their hometown gritty aggressive frequently the underdog oakland the less glamorous less wealthy and less gentrified city across the bay from san francisco loved its raiders with the passion the most frenzy denizens of raiders nation reveled in roared in a stadium section nicknamed the black hole and everyday. i love them. they represent us and we represent them and. their love and came and we don't stand behind them one hundred percent now the team's owner mark davis is ripping oakland's love and loyalty by abandoning it the raiders are moving to

the ritzier environs of las vegas sin city agreed to pay seven hundred fifty million dollars in taxpayer money to build a new stadium for the team raiders fans say that's unsportsmanlike conduct and needed a hand when a blown and in town you know they've been here on the here is a lie you want to move outraged the city's leaders are suing so this is an antitrust lawsuit and a breach of contracts it and we are sick maxim. that we will be able to prove that we believe there are substantial oakland says the league acts as an illegal cartel that fixes prices and routinely blackmail cities with threats to relocate its teams unless they help pay for bigger fancier stadiums and other improvements i am proud that we stood up against the safe down from the n.f.l. it has got to stop the idea that the n.f.l.

can exploit the emotions of their fans to extort money from taxpayers who have such greater needs the n.f.l. and davis didn't respond to requests for comment davis reportedly called the lawsuit malicious the raiders coach got nostalgic before the final game after a lot of wins over the years you know seen a lot of the old highlights of the great raider teams. i get excited i get emotional about it but emotions and loyalty are cheap and in professional sports the real name of the game is money rob reynolds al-jazeera. liverpool manager juergen klopp believes four or five teams are still in the race to win the english premier league title the reds are looking to end a three decade way to becoming their champions and all four points ahead of second place manchester city they take on newcastle at home on wednesday their manager

says he squad does have the mental strength to continue with their title push. always is always very bored but this voice as with all of. this was because the. sheaves in the past already big things. finals good positions in the league that alter that we did that all together so so far we only really did steps together and that's what we have to do. india's cricket captain virat kohli has been doing his best to downplay the heated rivalry with these australian counterpart some pain the pain had a number of less than friendly verbal exchanges during the second test of a series at one point the umpire had to intervene when the two clashed while payne was betting the series is level one want to head of wednesday's third test in melbourne india have never won a test series in australia and that's all the sport more from me again later on funny thank you very much for that that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera from

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